Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
I'm looking for historical statistics on article views per day on the English Wikipedia. I've spent a good bit of time wading around Wikipedia and Wikimedia but have begun to feel like I'm going in circles.
For quite some time we weren't keeping much in the way of statistics due to the performance and administrative overhead of recording, processing, and maintaining the logs at our level of traffic and small staff.
We have some newer sampled logs (1/100 and 1/1000) which cover the last couple months, and could make some data available from that, but there is little directly available between the old logs going offline and then.
Hi Brion,
Thanks for your help.
We have a 1/10 sampled log going back to April 12 (kudos to Tim Starling), which we are using for current statistics.
What's the timeframe of the sampled logs you mention?
The 1/1000 sampled log goes back to March 17. The 1/100 sampled log goes back to March 29. We can run either through the awk script we're using to filter your live results and make it available for download via HTTP.
In another post:
I have also located:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Awareness_statistics
which contains a "page views per million" statistic which has the necessary long-term reach but includes all Wikipedia traffic and is relative to a somewhat mysteriously selected user sample.
The Alexa data is quite poor but it was the best we had for a couple of years. You can read about their methods here:
http://www.alexa.com/site/help/traffic_learn_more?&qterm=&p=Dest
-- Tim Starling